Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-08-26

In one district of Algeria $4,000 gallons
of grasshoppers eggs have been collected
and burned this year.
The new Canadian Pacific bridge across
the st. Lawrence at Montreal is one and
one-half miles in length, and cost 81 ,j00,-
600 or only One-seventh as much as the
Victoria bridge.
The largest raft of pine logs ever towed
in the world reached Bay City, Mich. last
Tuesday from Au Train in the tow of the
tugs Gladiator and Mocking Bird 1t con-
tains 5000, 900 feet.
A gang of murderers has Just been ar
rested in Servia whose victims during the
past two years number go. Disguised as
gendarmes the assassins pretended to ar
rest travellers for various offences and then
robbed and killed them.
Richard S. Scott, teller of the Manhattan
bank of New York, who absconded in 1885
with $3.50, 900, tells strange story, where
in he accuses John r. Dunn, a stock brok
er, of being his accomplice and of making
way with the bulk of the plunder. Dunn
is under arrest
VIM. Ii. Roemer was arrested at Water
bury Ct, Saturday, charged with abstract
ing letters from the mails. Roemer was at
one time sheriff of Westminster county, N.
Y, and is said to have lost $50, 900 to $780,,
600 in Wall-street speculations. He was
prominent in Sunday circles.
Major Black, of Sumter, Ga, owned a
guinea hen that wanted to sit Her nest
was broken up several times, and at length,
with every appearance of extreme dejec-
| tion, she walked to the well, flew up on the
curbing, and, with a rasping cry, plunged
| head first into the water. When she was
taken out she was dead.
Thomas A. Edison's new pyromagnetic
motor can be attached, it seems, to an ordi-
nary house furnace, and will furnish pow
er for electric lights, mangles, washing
machines and other labor-saving inven-
tions for the household. There is only one
thing lacking about it, and that is, it abso-
lutely refuses to get up in the morning and
make the fire
The stuffed skin of sea serpent is on
exhibition on Peaks island in Portland har-
Dor. The monster is said to have been
captured off Newfoundland last year, and
is A. feet 3 inches long, and weighs 900
pounds The mouth contains a fine set of
teeth and on the upper jaw are two feel
ers each l3i inches long. Five feet back
of the head are two hukes ON each side,
and the end of the tail is formed like a
sculling oar, being fiat and nine inches in
width at the end.
A strange religious sect has made its
headquarters at Chatham, England, where
its devotees are building an immense tenn
pie which will cost $3.50, 900. 1t calls it.
self the New and Latter House of Israel I"
and its members believe that they are i'm
mortal, and that they are the remnant of
true Israelites, who will reign with Christ
for one thousand years The founder of
the sect was "A man named Jezriel, who is
now dead His death was a great shock to
the believers but his wife said that it was
an accident, and declared herself his sue
cessor.
A watch having but one wheel is still in
existence in France which was made in
Paris more than a hundred years ago. 1t
was presented to the National Institute in
1890, being then in deplorable state but
under the skillful treatment Of an expert
harmony between the various organs was
successfully reestablshed so that it is even
now in running order. The great wheel
which gives the watch its name, occupies
the bottom of the case and the centre of
the plate it has 60 teeth, and its axis car
ries two pinions, one of which receives the
motive force from barrel and the other
carries the minute works. The function of
this great wheel is quadruple, First it acts
ON lift, then on a lever operating on an
other destined 10 lower the axis of the
watch, and lastly ON third lever, the latter
serving 10 return power % the great wheel
at the moment when the action relents by
the rise of the axis.